Awesome Meteor

A curated list of awesome Meteor Packages, libraries and software.

The official Meteor resources page can be found here

• Awesome Meteor
  • Getting Started
  • Collections
  • Forms and Templates
  • Users and Authentication
  • REST
  • Files
  • Routers
  • Debugging Tools
  • Editor Plugins
  • Search, sort and paginate
  • Mobile
  • Offline
  • Testing
  • SEO
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics
  • Cron Jobs
  • Administration
  • Performance
  • Monitoring
  • Deployment
    • Docker Images
  • Front End Frameworks
  • Alternative Databases
  • Boilerplate
  • Open Source Apps
  • Internationalization
  • Scaffolding
  • Tooling
• Resources
  • Books
  • Courses
    • Free
    • Paid
  • Tutorials
  • Blogs
  • Websites
  • Q&A
  • Community Newsletters
  • Social
  • Work Opportunities
  • Related
• Built With Meteor
• Deprecated
• Contributing

Getting Started

Where to start

• Official Meteor tutorial
• Official Guide

Collections

Helpers and expensions for collections

• simple-schema - A JavaScript schema validation package that supports direct validation of MongoDB update modifier objects.
• aldeed:collection2 - Automatic validation of insert and update operations on the client and server.
• dburles:collection-helpers – Transform your collections with helpers that you define.
• matb33:collection-hooks - Extends Mongo.Collection with before/after hooks for insert/update/remove/find/findOne.
• reywood:publish-composite - publish a set of related documents from various collections using a reactive join.
• jagi:astronomy - The Model layer for Meteor.
• cultofcoders:grapher - Grapher: Meteor Collection Joins + Reactive GraphQL like queries.
• sakulstra:aggregate - Add proper aggregation support for Meteor.
• quave:collections - Create collections in a standard way.

REST

REST support for Meteor

• maka:rest - automatically make your Meteor app accessible over HTTP and DDP alike.
• vatfree:restivus - Make REST endpoints for your Meteor app with incredible ease.

Forms and Templates

Helpers for templates

• uniforms - Bunch of React components and helpers to easily generate and validate forms. Seamlessly integrate with simpl-schema.
• aldeed:autoform - UI components and helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events, and automatic reactive validation.
• ostrio:templatehelpers - Utility helpers for your Blaze templates.
• aldeed:template-extension - A Meteor package: Replace already defined templates, inherit helpers and events from other templates.
• kadira:blaze-layout - Layout Manager for Blaze (works well with Meteor FlowRouter)

Users and Authentication

Tools for handling users and authentication

• accounts-js - A suite of packages aims to provide all the tools you need to build a flexible authentication and accounts management solution for your application.
• alanning:roles - Roles support for the built-in accounts packages.
• meteor-user-status - Keeps track of users and their meta data.

Administration

Tools for administrating your Meteor apps

• Meteor Candy - Fastest and easier way to add an admin panel to your app.
• yogiben:admin - A complete admin dashboard solution.
• houston:admin - A zero-config, Django Admin-like admin for Meteor.
• zodern:pure-admin - An isolated, customizable admin panel for Meteor.

Monitoring

Tools for monitoring your Meteor apps

• kschingiz:meteor-elastic-apm - Perfomance Monitoring for Meteor based on Elastic APM
• monti-apm-agent - Performance Monitoring for Meteor
• lmachens:kadira - Performance Monitoring for Meteor

Performance

Tools for speeding up your Meteor apps

• cultofcoders:redis-oplog - Redis Oplog implementation to fully replace MongoDB Oplog in Meteor
• staringatlights:fast-render - An active fork of fast-render
• epotek:method-cache - Meteor method caching using DataLoader
• maestroqadev:pub-sub-lite - Transform publications to be non-reactive.
• artillery-engine-meteor - Artillery load testing for MeteorJS applications.

Deployment

Tools for deploying and maintaining Meteor apps

• meteor-up – Meteor Deployments.
• meteor-google-cloud - Automate Meteor deployments on Google Cloud App Engine Flexible
• mup-aws-beanstalk - Deploy Meteor apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Meteor Up
• meteor-azure - Automate Meteor deployments on Azure App Service
• pm2-meteor - Simplest way to deploy, scale and run Meteor Apps with PM2.
• meteor-hero - Deploy MeteorJS applications for free with one command utilizing Heroku’s service.
• meteor-kubernetes-guide - Deploy a Meteor app with Kubernetes.
• meteorhacks:cluster - Clustering solution for Meteor with load balancing and service discovery
• demeteorizer - Converts a Meteor app into a “standard” Node.js application
• percolate:migrations - Simple migration system for Meteor
• yamup - Deploy Meteor apps to your own Ubuntu server (EC2, …) without dockers

Docker Images

• meteor-docker
• meteor-base
• docker-meteor

Routers

Routers for Blaze

• ostrio:flow-router-extra - Carefully extended flow-router package. Up-to-date version with support of latest Meteor’s releases.
• msavin:parrot - Web router specially designed for building SPAs using Meteor
• meteorhacks:picker - Server Side Router for Meteor.
• iron:router - A router that works on the server and the browser, designed specifically for Meteor.

Offline

Tools for Meteor offline support

• ground:db - GroundDB is a thin layer providing Meteor offline database and methods.
• npdev:collections - An easy way to create offline collections with SSR for Meteor
• meteor-service-worker - Meteor specific service worker implementaion.
• quave:pwa - A Meteor package that allows you to configure your PWA.

Testing

Testing tools

• meteortesting:mocha - Mocha test driver package for Meteor.
• lmieulet:meteor-coverage - Test coverage for Meteor.
• hubroedu:mocha - Decaffed cultofcoders:mocha fork.
• antwaremx:meteorman - Meteorman: A DDP Client with GUI to test Meteor methods and publications (like Postman).

SEO

Search Engine Optimization tools

• ostrio:spiderable-middleware - Prerendering (a.k.a. Spiderable) with support of ES6 (ECMAScript2015) - Meteor app crawled perfectly by search engines.

Files

Handling files in Meteor

• ostrio:files - Upload files via DDP, HTTP and WebRTC/DC. To Meteor server FS, AWS, GridFS, DropBox or Google Drive. Fast, secure and robust.
• [@reactioncommerce/file-collections](https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction-file-collections) - Reaction FileCollections is a set of NPM packages that provide the ability to support file uploads, storage, and downloads in Node and Meteor apps, and in browser JavaScript.
• netanelgilad:excel - Parsing and generating excel files (xlsx, xls).
• mikkelking:slingshot - Upload files directly to AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and others in meteor.

Search, sort and paginate

Search, sort and paginate related tools

• percolate:find-from-publication - Enable finding all documents that have been published by a given publication.
• meteor-publish-join - A performant NPM package for publishing non-reactive or aggregated values.
• tmeasday:publish-counts - Publish the count of a cursor, in real time.
• meteorhacks:search-source - Reactive Data Source for Search.
• matteodem:easy-search - Easy-to-use search with Blaze Components (+ Elastic Search Support)
• alethes:pages - Out of the box Meteor pagination.

Mobile

Mobile Development

• meteor-push - Push notifications for cordova (ios, android) browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
• quave:universal-links - A Meteor package that allows you to expose your native iOS settings to enable Universal Links.
• meteoric:ionic - Ionic components for Meteor.
• driftyco:ionic - Official Ionic support for Meteor.
• martijnwalraven:meteor-ios - Integrates native iOS apps with the Meteor platform through DDP.
• delight-im/Android-DDP - DDP for clients on Android.
• okland:accounts-phone - A login service based on mobile phone number for Meteor.
• okland:camera-ui - Meteor package for taking photos with user interface, one function call on desktop and mobile. Allows to choose between camera to photoLibrary on mobile.
• percolatestudio/cordova-plugin-safe-reload - Cordova plugin to watch and recover after a broken Meteor Hot Code Push.

Data Visualization

Data Visualization in Meteor: charts, maps, tables, etc.

• aldeed:tabular - Reactive datatables for large or small datasets.
• aslagle:reactive-table - Reactive table for Meteor, using Blaze.
• luixal:blaze-paginated-custom-list - Reactive and paginated item list.
• luixal:meteor-apexcharts - Reactive ApexCharts library packaged for Meteor.

Analytics

Analytics

• okgrow:analytics - Google Analytics, Mixpanel, KISSmetrics (and more) integration for meteor.
• quave:analytics - A Meteor package that allows you to send your page views and more to Google Analytics.

Cron Jobs

Cron Jobs in Meteor

• msavin:sjobs - A Meteor-first jobs queue / task scheduler.
• percolate:synced-cron - Cron system for Meteor. It supports syncronizing jobs between multiple processes.
• ostrio:cron-jobs - Package with similar API to native setTimeout and setInterval methods, but synced between all running Meteor (NodeJS) instances.

Debugging Tools

Debugging Tools

• meteor-devtools-evolved - A chrome extension.
• msavin:mongol - Visual Editing Tool for Meteor for MongoDB Collections.
• msavin:jetsetter - Visual Get/Set Tool for Meteor Session Variables.
• babrahams:constellation - An extensible dev console for Meteor.

Editor Plugins

• meteor-api - Meteor addons for Atom.
• meteor-zsh - Completion for the meteor command.

Scaffolding

Scaffolding

• Meteor Kitchen - Code generator for Meteor.
• iron-cli - A scaffolding command line tool for Meteor applications.
• maka-cli - Maka-CLI is a command line tool, which organizes a web application’s file structure and automates everyday package installation tasks for various application frameworks.

Tooling

• ESLint-plugin-Meteor - ESLint plugin for Meteor.

Boilerplate

• Pup
• matteodem - meteor-boilerplate
• React with Webpack + Meteor as a backend

Open source apps

• Rocket.Chat - Realtime chat application built with Meteor.
• Wekan - Open source Trello-like kanban.
• Unchained Shop - Open source Commerce platform developed with Meteor.
• VulcanJS - A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor.
• Crowducate Platform - Open source education platform Powered by Meteor.
• Nosqlclient - MongoDB management tool.

Internationalization

• Meteor-Internationalization - Super-Lightweight and fast i18n isomorphic driver for Meteor with support of placeholders.
• meteor-accounts-t9n - Translations for meteor account’s error messages.

Front End Frameworks

Alternative Front End Frameworks to Blaze

• React - Working with React and Meteor.
• Vue - Working with Vue and Meteor (plus single-file components & apollo support).
• Svelte - Build cybernetically enhanced web apps with Meteor and Svelte.
• Angular 2 - Working with Angular 2 and Meteor.
• Angular - Working with Angular and Meteor.
• Famo.us - Famo.us and Meteor.
• frozeman:build-client - A tool to bundle the client part of a Meteor app.
• Asteroid - An alternative client for a Meteor backend.
• ddp.js - Isomorphic JavaScript DDP client.
• elm - elm as the view layer for a meteor based project.

Alternative Databases

Alternative Databases for MongoDB

• vlasky:mysql - Reactive MySQL for Meteor
• meteor-pg - New and improved PostgreSQL support for Meteor
• ostrio:neo4jdriver - Neo4j Driver for Meteor, with support of GrapheneDB
• numtel:pg - Reactive PostgreSQL for Meteor
• simple:rethink - RethinkDB integration for Meteor

Resources

Where to discover new Meteor things

Books

• Meteor Explained
• Secure Meteor
• meteor-tuts - Free
• Meteor Tips - Free
• Pro Meteor - Free
• Meteor Cookbook

Courses

• Free

  • How to Create an App - Most updated.
  • EventedMind - It’s old but goes into detail regarding how Meteor internals.

• Paid

  • Udemy - Learn React and Meteor in 2021: Build a multiplayer game
  • Udemy - Realtime Applications with Meteor and Vue - Course in Spanish.
  • leveluptutorials - Contains some free tutorials but mostly on 1.x.

Tutorials

• Phusion Passenger: Meteor tutorial
• When a Meteor finally hits production - Blog post about deploying Meteor apps
• Transform any Meteor App into a PWA

Blogs

• Official Meteor blog
• The Meteor podcast

Websites

• Official website
• Official Documentation
• Official Guide
• Atmosphere - The catalog of Meteor packages, resources and tools.
• Packosphere - Alternative front-end for Meteor package system, built by Kelly Copley
• Discover Meteor
• Meteorpedia (infrequently updated)
• Meetups
• Reddit
• YouTube videos from meetups around the world
• Unofficial Meteor FAQ
• The Meteor Chef

Q&A

• Stack Overflow
• Meteor forums

Community Newsletters

• zodern
• StorytellerCZ

Social

• Official Twitter Account
• Meteor Community Organization Slack Channel

Work Opportunities

• Awesome Meteor Jobs
• We work Meteor
• Official Job Board

Related

• Awesome Meteor Developers
• Awesome Blaze

Built With Meteor

Commercial Grade Applications Built With Meteor

• Qualia - Real Estate Startup
• Code Signal - Skills-based assessment platform
• Pathable - Events managment suite
• MaestroQA - Quality assurance software

Deprecated

This section is desginated for resources which are no longer compatible with the current version of Meteor

• Meteor 1.4 + React For Everyone Tutorials
• Meteor 1.4 For Everyone
• Intermediate Meteor
• Meteor For Everyone Tutorials
• tuts+ - Single Page Web Apps with Meteor
• Building a CMS-powered blog in Meteor
• scotch.io - Building a Slack Clone in Meteor

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

Thank you @gillesfabio for creating this repo!